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All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Jose Ortega y Gasset
Age: 72 †
Born: 1883
Born: May 9
Died: 1955
Died: October 18
Essayist
Literary Critic
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Opinion Journalist
Pedagogue
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Madrid
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Jose Ortega y Gasset
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What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit to any norm, you have, nolens volens , to submit to the norm of denying all morality, and this is not amoral, but immoral. It is a negative morality which preserves the empty form of the other.
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To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.
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What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.
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A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
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tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.
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